People

Kuljeet Sandhu

Group Leader

Kuljeet obtained his PhD degree in medicine from Karolinska Institue, Sweden in 2010. He further pursued post-doctoral fellowship at Genome Institute of Singapore and thereafter joined IISER-Mohali in Aug, 2012. He is interested in various questions pertaining to genome organisation and function, which can be answered within the realm of computational biology. 

Keerthivasan Chandradoss

PhD student

Ken joined our group in Aug, 2014.  He completed his MS integrated degree from Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore.  He worked upon role of genome architecture in guiding mono-alleleic expression of genes. His work suggested that the CTCF may have widespread allele-specific structural and functional  roles in the mammalian genome. He is presently working as post- doctoral fellow in University of Pennsylvania.

Yachna Jain

PhD student

Yachna  joined our group in Aug, 2017.  She studied  the role of genome organisation in  cancer resistance in mammals. Her thesis work uncovered that the cacer resistant rodent clades have distinct organisation of  3p21.31, a locus enriched with massive number of tumour suppressor genes. The locus is independently split in hystricomorphs (naked mole rat, capybara etc), and in  scuiromorphs (squirrels, marmots etc), which helps in escaping the pro-tumorigenic co-deletion of several  tumour suppressor genes in cis. The split also had association with several other clade-specific traits. Yachna is presently working as a data scientist with a corporate. 

Arashdeep Singh

PhD student

Arash Joined our group in Aug, 2013.  He completed his BS-MS integrated degree from IISER-Mohali. He has been interested in evolutionary aspects of genome organization.  He worked on a large scale  screening of functional constraints that shape the three dimensional landscape of eukaryotic genome.  His work challenged the wide-spread presumption that the co-expressed genes tend to co-localize in the nuclear space. He is presently working as post-doc at National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH.

Meenakshi Bagadia

PhD student

Meenakshi Joined our group in Aug, 2014.  She completed her BS-MS integrated degree from IISER-Mohali. She has been interested in evolution of linear genome order.  Her work highlighted that evolutionary gain or loss of proximity to regulatory elements may have shaped the evolution of lineage specific phenotypes. She is presently working in as  data scientist in corporate sector.